Psychopathia Sexualis (Heinrich Kaan)
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- Not to be confused with the later similar title book by Richard von Krafft-Ebbing (1886) that is considered more influential
Psychopathia Sexualis (Latin
Latin
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for Psychopathies
Psychopathy
Psychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime...
of Sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
) is a book written in 1843 by the Russian physician Heinrich Kaan
Heinrich Kaan
Heinrich Kaan was a 19-century physician known for his seminal contributions to early sexology. Different sources identify him as Ruthenian or as Russian...
. In this work, Kaan transformed and reinterpreted the Christian
Christianity
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sexual
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
sin
Sin
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s (homosexuality, masturbation etc.) as mental diseases.